Long Songs Win: "DoYaThing" & "Hey Jane"

I know these tracks have been all over the Internet the last couple of days, and I'm just kind of adding to the clutter here, but what can I say? They're just too good and I can't help myself. While I normally come from the school of "approximately 3-to-4-minutes is the best length for a rock song," the 13-minute version of "DoYaThing" by Gorillaz/James Murphy/Andre 3000 and the 9-minute "Hey Jane" by Spiritualized share the prize this week for single of the week. The former is of course the extended version of the shoe-company song while the latter is our first taste of Spiritualized's new album, Sweet Heart Sweet Light, out April 19th. You can find the shorter and not quite as good radio edit of "DoYaThing" as a free download here; or you can stream the superior extended cut -- and check out the lyrics, which include the line "I can fart on it, I'm the shit!"-- here. "Hey Jane," which as best as I can tell contains no lyrics about farts, is streaming over at NME.

One thing about the Spiritualized record, while "Hey Jane" sounds like classic Jason Pierce, the press release for Sweet Heart Sweet Light states that Pierce's 11-year old daughter, Poppy, helped compose and contributes vocals on one of the album's tracks, "So Long You Pretty Thing." This sounds like some fairly Jimmy Buffett-esque behavior from our favorite druggy trance-rockers. Do we need to be worried about this?